Ex-Tide star Chapman played last season with torn ACL

Nose tackle taking NFL by storm with Colts

12:38 PM,
Nov. 2, 2012

Written by

Phil Richards
Indianapolis Star

INDIANAPOLIS - Josh Chapman earned honorable mention All-America recognition and second-team All-Southeastern Conference honors while playing nose tackle for Alabama last season. Of course it might have been better.

He did it on one leg. Chapman bit his lip, strapped on his brace and watched the trainers wrap him in a mile of tape; he played his final seven games on a torn anterior cruciate ligament and torn meniscus in his left knee.

"It had pain to it, a lot of pain," Chapman explained in his self-unpretentious manner, "but at the same time, I was always taught pain was temporary." ...